Edna M. McKnight

Edna M. McKnight was famous for being known among the Mill Cove relics as “the one without masts.” A four-master built at the Camden shipyard of Robert L. Bean. The yard was closed in 1909 when Robert’s father Holly Bean retired. Robert reopened the yard and started from scratch in 1916. He completed 12 ships by the closure in 1920. Eleven 11 of the 12 resulted in a disaster designation per the International Maritime Library. Edna M. McKnight was the third largest that Bean built. A collier or bulk carrier a cargo ship designed to carry coal. Her net tonnage, the space or volume available for cargo, was 1203. She met her end in 1926, when she was de-masted by a powerful storm off the Virginia coast while heavily loaded with lumber. Her crew was taken off by a passing steamer on 7 December; the hulk was allowed to drift off. On the 28th of the month she was relocated, and tug dispatched to bring her into Bermuda. By September of the next year the hulk had reached Boothbay Harbor for repairs. However, she was judged not worth repairing and was cast away to rot in Mill Cove.